By Hassan Ali

Myanmar and India shares more than 1400 km land border. British in 18^th century took the control of India. From the 1820s-80s Britain also gradually forcefully and illegitimate conquered Burma; by the Treaty of Yandabo in 1826 which ended the First Anglo-Burmese War Burma recognized. In 1834 the Kabaw Valley areas was returned to Burma and a modified boundary delimited in this region, dubbed the 'Pemberton line' after a British commissioner, which was later refined in 1881Further boundary modifications were made in 1901, 1921 and 1922. As the historical fact is that this land since centuries ruled by the Burmese. India on purpose creating boundaries issues with itsneighbors to achieve its illegitimate targets and established its hegemony on the region.

Burma become an independent state in 1948. On 10 March 1967 Burma and India signed a boundary treaty which delimited their common frontier in detail. The international boundary between the two countries had been formally demarcated (except the northern tri-junction where India-Myanmar and China meet, pending the final resolution of the India-China boundary dispute) following the boundary agreement on March 10, 1967.

The socio-cultural landscape of the borderland, dividing several tribes and forcing them to reside as citizens of different countries. These tribes, however, refuse to accept the forceful occupied line and continue to maintain strong cross-border ethnic linkages. Such linkages are often exploited by the BSF, when locals are crossing the border. The terrain of the India-Myanmar borderalsoadds to its vulnerability. High mountains, deep river channels together with lush forest characterize the borderland.  Indian army use such kind of terrain to establish the cult of insurgents and give them free hand destabilize the region or its neighbors.

India army also send insurgents in Myanmar to fight against the Myanmar Army and destabilize the regions and influence the foreign policy of Myanmar.  Myanmar Armyseveral time conducted counter insurgency operations against Indian insurgents groups which sent by the BSF. This cross border movement of insurgents is only one of several security challenges facing the policing of the border. Due to cross border insurgency Myanmar is still unable to solve the dispute with India.

Myanmar army asked all non-Myanmar insurgents which entered in myanmer with the  help of BSF to leave the country and warned the NSCN (K) against giving shelter to any Indian insurgent groups in their country . It is estimated that around 2,000 cadres of Indian insurgent groups active in the Northeast, such as the United Liberation Front of Asam – Independent (ULFA-I), the National Democratic Front of Bodoland –S (NDFB-S), the United National Liberation Front (UNLF), the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), etc. continue to hide in Myanmar, so this give chance to Indian Army to attack on the soverighnty of Myanmar and destabilize the economic routes.

That the Indian insurgents can cross the international border and hide in the neighbouring country is not new. Since the inception of insurgency in the Northeast in the 1950s, the Naga, Mizo, Meitei, and Assamese insurgents have been crossing over into Myanmar to set up bases, especially in the Chin state and Sagaing Region, where they rest, recoup, train, plan and launch future offensives, and take shelter when pursued by the Indian security forces. This is tactics to allow insurgents to gain strength and conduct artificial operations to push the insurgents into the neighboring countries.

The Assam Rifles, which is the designated border guarding force for the India-Myanmar border, deploy only 15 battalions out of 46 battalions for border guarding purposes and the rest are engaged in counter insurgency operations. These 15 battalions are also not deployed at the border or spread along the entire border but clustered as company-operated bases (COBs) stationed deep inside, thereby preventing the force from dominating the border domination and restricting their ability to prevent illegal cross-border movements. But as per the recent news the Indian battalion involved in the drug trafficking and as well as human trafficking.  They killed many people while crossing the borders.

On June 23, a report published by the European Foundation for South Asian Studies (EFSAS) stated that Indian insurgents from the country's north eastern states, who have been sheltered for years in Myanmar, present security challenges for the region and India is desired to achieve their illegitimate target of hegemonic.

India strategy is quite evident that they desiring to destabilize the region. When the region become destabilize they urge for the International community to invade and stable the region, so they can counter the China. Historical fact that all of its neighboring countries demand of land is legitimate. Myanmar claim is legal on the basis of international law. India don’t want to settle their disputes because the support insurgents to hurdle and halt the progress of Myanmar.